Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition Finals
Activity
The Australian National University is delighted to present the Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition to be awarded in 2018 at the School of Music. The Whitworth-Roach Classical Music Performance Competition occurs annually and is open to all ANU students. The competition has a…
Beyond Words? Trauma in Literature from the Concentration Camps
Seminar
Cathy Caruth’s studies on trauma and literature, especially her seminal 1996 work, Unclaimed Experience, laid much of the groundwork of literary trauma theory. Caruth labelled trauma ‘the unexperienced event’. Direct knowledge of the traumatic experience, according to Caruth, is impossible; the ‘…
Whitworth-Roach Competition Concert: Acacia Quartet
Activity
The Whitworth-Roach Classical Music Performance Competition occurs annually and is open to all students of the Australian National University. With $20,000 in prizes, the opportunity for musicians from across the campus to enter this competition for the chance to win such generous prize money,…
Public Lecture: Niko Dimitrijevic
Lecture
Born in the United States, Niko Dimitrijevic received his BFA in glass and sculpture from Alfred University in 2004 and his MFA in glass at The Ohio State University in 2018. Most recently his work has manifested as temporary site-responsive installations using light or its properties to define a…
The dead pan: Nathanael West’s unfunny jokes and modernist anti‐sentimentalism
Seminar
Though Nathanael West’s novels are often read in terms of an ancient and revered mode of misanthropic humour—satire—in this paper I want to draw on recent work that seeks to situate his work in relation to distinctly modern comic modes—slapstick, burlesque, black humour, and especially, dead pan…
The dead pan: Nathanael West’s unfunny jokes and modernist anti‐sentimentalism
Seminar
Though Nathanael West’s novels are often read in terms of an ancient and revered mode of misanthropic humour—satire—in this paper I want to draw on recent work that seeks to situate his work in relation to distinctly modern comic modes—slapstick, burlesque, black humour, and especially, dead pan.…
Online Archives and Digital Resources: A thousand years of networks
Seminar
As part of the “Settimana della lingua italiana”, Dr Josh Brown will give a lecture on October 17 at 4pm entitled “Online archives and digital resources: A thousand years of networks”.